COMMON BONDS
DIED BY BEHEADING
SPORTS
INSTRUMENTS
SPORTS INSTRUMENTS
200
Cuban, banh mi, po' boy.
What are sandwiches?
200
Queen consort of France until the abolition of the Monarchy in 1792, during which she was known as Madame Déficit.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
200
Played by Christian Bale on film, Ken Miles covered hundreds of miles for this team that beat Ferrari at Le Mans.
Who are Ford?
200
In the song "Winter Wonderland", these "ring, are you listening."
What are sleigh bells?
200
Types of strokes with these instruments in canoeing include forward, pitch, and goon.
What are paddles?
400
Tuna, tennis balls, paint.
What are things that come in a can?
400
The second wife of King Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I.
Who is Queen Anne Boleyn?
400
Smaller than half a square inch, the triple 20 is the highest-value subsection of the board in this sport.
What is darts?
400
The Greek for "wood" gives us the name of this instrument that's struck with padded mallets.
What is the xylophone?
400
One uses these to hit balls through hoops or wickets in croquet.
What are mallets?
600
Family, class, order
What are taxonomic ranks?
600
The Iraqi Mandaeans believe him to be the final and greatest prophet, yet this preacher anticipated a messianic figure greater than himself.
Who is John the Baptist?
600
2025 was a big year for this man; he was named the NFL's MVP for the previous year, & he married Hailee Steinfeld.
Who is Josh Allen?
600
Named for a band conductor, it's the marching band instrument being played here.
What is the sousaphone?
600
These projectiles are used in a few sports, with varieties including free style, disc golf, and ultimate.
What are frisbees?
800
Hobby, dark, charley.
What are horses?
800
This Scottish knight is the key character represented in the famous 1995 film, Braveheart.
Who is Sir William Wallace?
800
It's one of the most dramatic plays in sports; Ty Cobb did it 54 times & Jackie Robinson did it in Game 1 of the 1955 World Series.
What is stealing home?
800
An engineer named Robert Moog developed this instrument in the 1960s.
What is the synthesizer?
800
USA uses the term "paddle," and Europe uses "bat," for the instrument to hit the ball in Table Tennis. But, the official ITTF term is this.
What is a racket?
1000
Cheaters, opera, pince-nez.
What are glasses?
1000
Highly debated as either a great British hero or military dictator, his corpse was decapitated by the son of the King he'd overthrown.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
1000
It's the oldest trophy awarded in North American pro sports; one early winning team was the Vancouver Millionaires.
What is the Stanley Cup?
1000
Way bigger than a harmonica but with most of the same letters, it's also called a reed organ & was replaced by electronic organs.
What is the harmonium?
1000
Two sets of these are at the end of each pitch in cricket. The rhyme is coincidental.
What are wickets?